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Weather Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Evaporation | Liquid water turning into water vapor (a gas) |
| Humidity | The measure of how much water vapor is in the air. |
| Condensation | a gas changing to a liquid |
| Cumulus Clouds | Clouds that look like fluffy piles of cotton. |
| Stratus Clouds | Clouds that usually cover all or most of the sky. |
| Cirrus Clouds | Wispy, feathery clouds at a high level in the sky. |
| Air mass | A HUGE body of air that has similar temperature and humidity. |
| Tropical Air mass | WARM AIR MASS – form over warm, tropical area. |
| Polar Air mass | COLD AIR MASS - air masses form in regions in the far north or far south. |
| Continental Air mass | Air masses that form over land. |
| Maritime Air mass | Air masses that form over oceans. |
| Front | A boundary between two air masses. |
| Tornado | Destructive rotating column of air that has high wind speeds and may be visible as a funnel-shape cloud. |
| Hurricane | A severe storm that develops over tropical OCEANS with strong winds that spiral inward toward the low pressure center |